@Jaredan ETAs are a terrible idea, but what about progress reports?

Jaredan, I understand how posting ETAs in the boards would only create community backlash in case something went wrong and more time was needed to fix an unexpected problem with the project. It’s a terrible idea, I agree. However, what’s the harm in us getting short progress reports? I’m not asking for us to know what you guys are up to 100% of the time, just a simple status update every now and then.

I think small things like this could really change our little corner of the boards. First of all it would create consistency in our posts. The themes that we discussed in our threads would be the ones we knew Art and Narrative were working on right now! Here’s an example. Say someone from the narrative team posted “Writing Jax’s new bio, keep an eye out on his champion page!” the prevalent theme in Story and Art for the next few days would certainly be posts discussing Jax’s character, visuals and what we want from him in the future. This way you reds could see what we want from Jax when it comes to his identity much more clearly and cohesively than any post about Jax once a month ever could!

These progress reports could also calm our anxiety when waiting for new lore releases. They’d let us know just what’s going on. For example: Jaredan, you could post something like “editing champion short stories” that way we would know what you guys are up to. It would be such a great and unifying experience between us the community and you guys at narrative. Not to mention it would be extremely satisfactory to read that the wait is over a week later or so with something as simple as "champion short stories finished, hope you enjoy them!" This doesn’t only need apply when it comes to narrative. Art would definitely benefit a lot from posting these too. It would be pretty fun to see Ironstylus post “just finished modeling 's new shield, I must admit it’s looking FABULOUS”. Like I said before this could only improve the Story and Art boards and create a better experience for everyone while maintaining an easy not-much-effort required connection between you guys at Riot HQ and us here at Boards.

Finally, if any of you guys have a better way to implement this idea or achieve this goal please tell me so. See you in the Rift.